Dec 2010 – Jan 2013 The document summarizes what the author has been doing from December 2010 to January 2013. It describes how he took two years out of his career to fulfill his ambition of developing a 1 hectare over-mature coconut plantation that he purchased in 2008 on an island off the coast of Davao City in the Philippines. During this time, he engaged in various development activities like felling trees, building infrastructure like a storage building and gatehouse, installing water and septic systems, terracing the land, and raising various livestock and crops without taking on any debt. After two rewarding years of development, it was now time to return to the corporate world.